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despiteful, a.|dɪˈspaɪtfʊl|
[f. despite n. + -ful.]
Full of or abounding in despite.
†1. Contemptuous; insulting, opprobrious. Obs.
c1450Lonelich Grail xxxvii. 185 Ha, dispitful Creature..Vnhappy aȝens al good aventure. 1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1038/2 Whoso dishonor god in one place with occasion of a false fayth..all honoure that he dooeth hym anye where beside, is odious and dispightefull, and reiected of god. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Pet. iv. 14 In the myddes of your dispightfull handlinge, the glorious spirite of god is kyndled againe in you. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxix. (1632) 125 They slew them, and left their bodies to despightfull ignominy. 1676Bp. Guthrie in Burton's Diary (1828) III. 90 note, Having prefaced awhile with despightful exclamations, ‘a pape! a pape! Antichrist! pull hid down!’ threw the stools they sat on at the preachers.
2. Cruel, fierce; cherishing ill-will; malignant, malicious; spiteful.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 207 The constable a felloun man of wer..Selbye he hecht, dispitfull and owtrage. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xx. 45 And be no wayis dispytfull to the peure. 1558Knox First Blast (Arb.) 9, I shalbe called foolishe, curious, despitefull, and a sower of sedition. 1570Levins Manip. 187 Dispiteful, inuidiosus. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. ii. 86 It is my studie To seeme despightfull and vngentle to you. 1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 662 This..Inflamed him with despightful Ire. 1667Milton P.L. x. 1 The hainous and despightfull act Of Satan done in Paradise. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. lxxviii, The other was a fell despightful fiend. 1852Kingsley Poems, Andromeda 125 False and devouring thou art, and the great world dark and despiteful. |